Facebook loooooves tracking you, and even embeds their tracking codes inside of images uploaded there. Thankfully, removing them is a relatively simple matter, made even simpler with this tiny lil' script.
The easiest way is downloading this repo as *.zip, extracting it wherever
and running py fbmangler.py. Do note, that there are a few requirements:
- jamesacampbell/iptcinfo3 is needed to parse and edit file metadata
- Python 3 is required to run it
Or you can use the dist files and stuff if you want to use it as a library in your own piece of software. It's MIT, so go wild.
If you parse parsed files again, it will still show that tracking tokens
got changed. That's because they're detected by the FBMD prefix, and the
replacement codes also start with that. You can pretty easily tell that
tokens aren;t original, because Facebook's tokens have a lot of 0s in them.
Why not just remove that data instead of mangling it? Well, removed data will do nothing to them, mangled data might just screw up an algorithm of theirs or two.
Also, the scipt leaves the old files as *.jpg~ and *.jpeg~ files.
Remove the tilde if anything goes wrong and get your old file back. Or
delete all those files after parsing is successful.